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Alaskas tricky intersection of Obama energy and climate legacies
2015-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obamas move to open up vast, untouched Arctic waters to oil and gas drilling as he pursues an ambitious plan to fight climate change illustrates the inherent tensions in his environmental and energy agenda. As the first president to seriously tackle climate change, Mr. Obama has proposed aggressive new rules to cut planet-warming carbon emissions from the nations power plants and is pushing for a major global warming accord. He has also overseen an extraordinary boom in domestic energy...
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